Two things are going to happen before anyone reads this:

1. It's going to be disregarded by the community as a whine and not read
2. What's said is going to be justified by those who made the purchase

... neither of which help me. But I feel it needs to be said to the company should anyone care to read it.

Now to set the stage, I've watched this game for a LONG time. I juggled a pre-order on it for many months and just waited to see. I'm now seeing the rave reviews and friends comments and want the game even more now. Except for one thing... the price.

Now I get it. The social and industry norm now is that PC gamers buy games at console pricing. All part of an inflated market for those trying to make an extra dollar. But I can assure you that I have NO plans to EVER purchase a PC game for $59.99. I wont do it, and wont even give it a second thought. I wont go into the details other than I've been gaming for YEARS when new top titles released at $19.99 on CD-ROM and 5 1/4" disk. I saw the industry adjust with the times and slowly go to $29.99 then $39.99 and then stick for many years at $49.99. This new "concept" of paying now another $10 and often times for digital downloading is absurd and frankly disappointing that you'd think me that stupid.

So Bethesda... plan on something soon. Drop the price to a normal respectable PC price ($49.99) and I'll gladly pay it. I have every intentions on owning this game when the price is right. I want very much to experience the game and enjoy it... but I absolutely refuse to contribute to the inflation. Now of course the argument could be made that with my IGN account I could have purchased it from D2D during the pre-order period for $47.00. Trust me I wish I had. But the thought of it originally being a full $60 pricetag from the start bothered me. We're now seeing EA doing it, Activision, and others. Bethesda is one of the latest to fall victim to the "norm".

I guess I should also say that I own a PS3 and 360 (among almost every other console since the Atari). I've paid full price to include $59.99 for console games for a long time... but I accept that for consoles. I don't for PC's. Again I wont go into the reasons because I don't want a flame war. But Bethesda... please drop this price soon so I can enjoy the game!

Why don't you get a job.

"Two things are going to happen before anyone reads this:

1. It's going to be disregarded by the community as a whine and not read
2. What's said is going to be justified by those who made the purchase"

I was going to read the whole thing, then I read the the quoted segment above.

dude buy the [censored] game already, this game has like 10 singleplayers worth of time put in 1 game! thats arround 200-500 hour gameplay. this game is worth 500$ lol

I have no problem paying that much for a good game.

I have a job. I make almost $100,000 year with my overtime (base pay is $72,000). That is of course irrelevant and the principle is what I'm discussing. Which has already been disregarded as I thought it would in the first couple replies.

That's ok. I wasn't going to but it, then did once I saw a gameplay vid the week of release. It reminded me of Daggerfall with great graphics. So I bought the digital download version for $48. So they broke even.

Let me add that I agree about the $60. I don't buy games for that much either.

You're digging your heels in over $10? This is gonna be good....

Must be a US thing because in the UK the PC version was buyable at ￡29.99 while the consoles were up there at ￡40-45. Given a huge part of the game is mods, kind of feel sorry for the console people, but having said that they did get UI designed for specially for them (or rather the PC got a horrible UI that was ported from the console).

Oh my God, who the hell cares. Buy the game or don't, why'd you even bother making a topic? They're not going to bring the prices down so soon. We both know that.

Inflation. Better quality games. New Tech for New Games Costs More. Advancement.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. And you won't spend $60 on a game? hahahhahaahahahahahahaha.

People are going to read your above sentence and

1. laugh at you.
2. ...

Stop whining about the price!, in Australia we have to pay almost double that. Why not pay $10 more dollars for the pc version, Its better than the console versions anyway.

I'm in the UK and I bought the game on Steam for the same price I've paid for pretty much every new release over the last 2 years - ￡35. I could have pre-ordered for ￡28 on Amazon, but I wanted the digital version. Is this game more expensive than other new releases in other countries then? Because for me it is no more expensive than any other game that I bought recently (PC games here are cheaper than console games anyway, and this was no exception).

If so, the amount of content is worth it - 300 hours of Skyrim for a few dollars more than a 30 hour shooter does not seem like a bad deal. The time I've spent on this so far it works out at less than 30p per hour, and I've still got loads to do in the game. Far better value than most other games, and most other forms of entertainment (it now costs ￡12 for a cinema ticket, which is less than 2 hours of entertainment).

If you look at this logically, the amount of money ($60) per hour of enjoyment (AT LEAST 150 hours, and that's the BARE MINIMUM) is by far cheaper than almost anything else you'll buy.

your post is so stupid that i hope you DONT buy skyrim and enjoy it. this game is to good for you and there are so many things wrong with your post.... skyrim has like 10x the content of a normal single player game and you STILL [censored] about the price.

You are you, and I am me.



Like I said, I wish I had jumped on it with D2D. But it's something that I've wanted to say to a few publishers and the only reason I haven't gotten Skyrim yet.



Quite. Like I said, it's a principle issue... much like paying increased pricing for Netflix which made MILLIONS leave the company. What's a few dollars? More than you paid before.


Well it's good to know the potential is there for expansion. Sounds like the UK got a good deal.

Yet you still felt the need to post this thread.

Your thread will go unnoticed by Beth. The price will eventually drop, but not because of this thread.

Just be patient.

What I don't get is that my gf (whose buying the game for me) told me that the PC version costs more than the Xbox version. I've never heard of that happening. Frankly, I think they need to offer a crossplatform product. No physical PC copies, only download, which could then be price reduced because they don't have to worry about production/distribution. All physical console copies would then come with a key for PC download, at the standard price.

But that's in a world where companies aren't greedy. YES, this is one of the few games that has $60 worth of content if not more, BUT, there's really no need to charge customers for plastic, packaging, and distribution costs when they can simply download the product electronically at virtually no cost. Pass on the savings.

I have to pay up to $100 for every game. You really shouldn't complain, you get it cheaper than most of the world

Quit whinging, cost me $90 USD to buy it on steam here in Aus

ah yes... yet another pc player refusing to pay the same as console players because they feel its unfair to have to pay the same and that its only fair when they pay much less

I support the OP's sentiment totally.

You hear about piracy concerns all the time. One way to avoid all that would be to set the price to something reasonable, not something that just makes you think twice.

Yes, you zealots (remember that I am a big supporter of Bethesda too)might say that I can get tons of enjoyment out of this game, much more than others. But that is besides the point. Would Bethesda make a worse game if it were to be priced at $50 or lower?

And idiots who ask the OP to get a job didn't read the post - he can afford all three gaming platforms, so he is not poor. Neither am I.

If you were a millionaire, would you buy a bag of potato chips for thirty dollars?

old NES games used to be like 70 bucks.